I'm back! Prologue Long ago, there were three heroes. One was an Elvish Mage, named Scaronin. The other a Dwarvish Warrior, the next, a human archer. They wielded enchanted weapons. The archers bow had infinite arrows and never missed a target. The staff of the Mage had powerful runes, making it more powerful than any other Mage's staff. The axe of the Warrior has a blade that passes through any material. This axe lights an enemy's soul on fire. It inflicts damages that kill the victim in a matter of days. These weapons are called The Three Heroes Blades. The heroes fought a long battle, and they linked the Blades together and formed the Eternal Rage. They used this to save the realm of Ancal from an ancient evil known as the Bane. The Bane tried to destroy the Seven Realms of Ancal, Banaria, Gonduron, Excalibrus, Myrondio, Westwrym, and Homeron. They came close to conquering Ancal, if not for the heroes. Sadly, the heroes knew of spies throughout Ancal. They hid the Blades and meditated into a deep slumber, only to wake up on the darkest day if Ancal, when another three heroes would rise again
Ok. Chapter One In the lonely city of Atrius, a seventeen year old Elf boy was doing his chores when a knock on his family's door changed his life. The boy's mother… Whoa whoa whoa, WHAT is the narrator telling you? I am that Elf boy, by the way. Jerk. And say my name to, if you don't mind! It's Ertod... Alright Ertod, alright. Now let Angry tell the story... NO! I'm telling the story, noob. Anyway... NO! I was hired to read it! I'm reading it!... NO I AM!!...
-Several pages later- All right, Ertod, you win. I have no gold left... Good. Now, mom answered it and next thing you know I'm reading " As you are holding this message, you have been chosen to go on a quest to find the Lost Staff of Everloss. Two others have been chosen, and although you may never meet, you will work together to defend Ancal from the Bane. Our defenses are weakening. It is your duty to defend Ancal. Unless you wish to suffer. Yours truly, The name was unreadable, as a red splotch covered the entirety. Want more? Have a thread you want me to make for some reason? Wall me!
This axe lights an enemy's soul on fire. It inflicts damages that kill the victim in a matter of days ... Yes, as we all know, when you're in an axe fight with an enemy, killing them days later is exactly what you want....
Well, it isn't about killing enemies instantly. If I had a gun that pierced your soul, causing instant unconsciousness, and when you wake up, you feel incredible pain for days on end, before dying a slow, painful death, accompanied by pain that dosent cause physical suffering, but that causes pain in the very soul. It slowly creeps from the wound to the heart, and then you implode in a quick, painful death, after days if utter agony. That is what the axe dose. Dark right?
Nope, bad idea, gives opponent time to come back and bury the hatchet ... he knows you cracked him one with an axe, and then feels like ****, so what else would he do...but come back and kamikaze.
All right, you are dying a slow painful death burning your soul. There is blood coming from your mouth. You can barely able to move at all, so how could you stand up and kill someone like that?
It's not about killing instantly, it's about making your opponent suffer. That's why it hits the soul.
I get what your saying, but think in practical terms of impractical science fiction, such a device could backfire upon the user, say your character whacks-a-mole on his head with the slow debilitating neutralizer, and he has a few days of suffering and being irregular, it wouldn't be out of the realm that said mole in this case, could hire someone to take his vengeance. And the thought that during the enchantment process, the make of the axe thought "gee, I want to make this wicked axe, that wouldn't just defend the user, but make his opponent suffer the grips before he goes, if it were set up more like Komodo Dragon, whose bite is so full of bacteria, it kills their victim after a few days, this lets the Dragon take down a much larger foe, with just a few bites, so if your axe man was going after a giant per say, then for me it would make sense.
If the person has blood speeding blood out of their mouth, how could they speak? Tell me if I'm wrong, but its kind of hard to speak with blood spewing from you.